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Safety Factors and Reliability
Isaac E. Elishakoff
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Description for Safety Factors and Reliability
Hardback. Argues that safety factors are closely related with the reliability of structures. This book shows that the safety factors are more comprehensible if they are seen in a probabilistic context. It helps readers critically re-think the issue of safety factors. It is intended for engineers, graduate students, lecturers and researchers. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 606.
Have you ever wondered where the safety factors come from? Why is it that deterministic analysis has reached a very sophisticated level, but in the end empirical factors are still needed? Is there a way to select them, rather than assigning them arbitrarily as is often done?
This book clearly shows that safety factors are closely related with the reliability of structures, giving yet another demonstration of Albert Einstein's maxim that "It is incomprehensible that Nature is comprehensible". The book shows that the safety factors are much more comprehensible ... Read more
Have you ever wondered where the safety factors come from? Why is it that deterministic analysis has reached a very sophisticated level, but in the end empirical factors are still needed? Is there a way to select them, rather than assigning them arbitrarily as is often done?
This book clearly shows that safety factors are closely related with the reliability of structures, giving yet another demonstration of Albert Einstein's maxim that "It is incomprehensible that Nature is comprehensible". The book shows that the safety factors are much more comprehensible ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402017797
SKU
V9781402017797
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
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